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Thanks WSA, Huntster, hiflier, and MIB for the comments! I was also there in about 76 or 77 and here is another photo with the door open. Really don't remember the trap being active all the time up until 1980. Probably just active sporadically. I will post some photos of the cabin later which I see now is just a pile of boards. Also wished I had taken a photo of the mine shaft where the miner who reported the sighting did his mining. It was close to where the cabin was.

I was there a couple years ago. I've lived less than an hour from it for over 20 years. Neat spot. I've investigated reports around the general area. One of my friends has done even more. Those are his stories to tell, not mine. I suspect it was a very good location but the building of the dam and filling of the reservoir have redirected BF travel from that particular ridge to others upstream and downstream from the one with the trap. There are recent reports from the other side of the lake even without a through-route anymore so I suppose there could still be intermittent activity near the trap. MIB

Looks a little light for the job.

I have some questions for further investigation. 1) Were the limbs from the trees under which they were found? 2) Were the limbs cut or broken. 3) They seem kind of spread all over the place rather than something that could be laid on. Is there any sign that there was anything laying on them? Other than snow. 4) Is there any possibility some kind of bough harvesting is going on in the area? I ask because bough harvesting of several tree species occurs at certain times of the year in the PNW where I live. 5) Are there other hemlock out in the forest, away from the trail, that show the same thing around them?